09/11/2009

I posted this comment to Andrea Phillips’s blog in response to her post about snarky criticism of Rebecca Black.  I don’t think we need to draw a line between whose work deserves to be beaten up online and whose doesn’t – I think the question is really why we think it helps anybody.  I thought…

Finding it hard to concentrate – I have a stiff neck and a headache (bloody french food) and I’m struggling to keep up with the backchannel, the panel speakers and my own brain – now Loic just put up the pictures of Adriana shooting in Pennsylvania so I’m giving up on even trying to pay…

Next Monday I’ll be taking part in an event hosted by Counterpoint at the ICA to discuss Charlie Leadbeater’s pamphlet on Cloud Culture which is being published on that day, but has already been trailed here and here. In that pre-publication writing Charlie has focused on ownership and control of the cloud as the big…

Why is the idea of a journey important right now?  How can we use the ideas about a journey to help us understand things that are changing or confusing or just too complicated in our everyday lives?   That’s what I’m trying to do here.  Although I enjoy travelling and telling stories about what happened,…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4OE7zMAlEM] After some scorching days in Glasgow, I’ve found some more reassuringly Scottish weather. Originally posted on Lloyd’s posterous

I’m at the Novotel in Hammersmith at the Unicom conference on Social Tools and their business applications. This morning we heard from Euan Semple, Lee Bryant and Sarah Prag from the BBC. Up now is Duncan Brown from Influencer 50 talking about the influence of blogs. I’m on first thing tomorrow morning, talking about building…